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Radivoj Korać

1938 - 1969

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Radivoj Korać (Serbian Cyrillic: Радивој Кораћ; 5 November 1938 – 2 June 1969) was a Yugoslav professional basketball player. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Korać is well-known for holding the EuroLeague's all-time single-game scoring record (since 1958), at 99 points scored, in a game versus Alviks, during the 1964–65 season, and for once making 100 out of 100 free throws on a live television show in Belgium.Korać died in a car crash in 1969, at the age of 30, and FIBA Europe later established the European-wide third-tier level FIBA Radivoj Korać Cup, in his remembrance, in 1971. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Radivoj Korać has received more than 229,006 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Radivoj Korać is the 16th most popular basketball player (up from 17th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 89th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Radivoj Korać by language

Over the past year Radivoj Korać has had the most page views in the with 36,770 views, followed by Serbian (24,244), and Serbo-Croatian (7,990). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (96.89%), German (65.90%), and Latvian (50.14%)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Radivoj Korać ranks 16 out of 1,757. Before him are Clyde Drexler, Dražen Petrović, Larry Bird, Svetislav Pešić, LeBron James, and Pat Riley. After him are Krešimir Ćosić, Arvydas Sabonis, Sergei Belov, Julius Erving, Oscar Robertson, and Mirza Delibašić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Radivoj Korać ranks 108. Before him are Larry Scott, Cabu, Karin Dor, Tom Regan, Seishiro Shimatani, and Milan Galić. After him are Adolf Scherer, Ted Turner, Connie Francis, Heino, Morihiro Hosokawa, and Keith O'Brien. Among people deceased in 1969, Radivoj Korać ranks 55. Before him are Raymond A. Spruance, Korney Chukovsky, Grażyna Bacewicz, Dragiša Cvetković, Eberhard von Mackensen, and Markian Popov. After him are Artur da Costa e Silva, Ernest Ansermet, Jiří Trnka, Joseph Kosma, Ramón Grau, and Lucien Bianchi.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Radivoj Korać ranks 90 out of 661. Before him are Milunka Savić (1890), Martin of Braga (520), Šaban Šaulić (1951), Nadežda Petrović (1873), Dragiša Cvetković (1893), and Koča Popović (1908). After him are Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia (1819), Đorđe Balašević (1953), Mirjana Marković (1942), Miloš Milutinović (1933), Željko Obradović (1960), and Duško Popov (1912).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Serbia

Among basketball players born in Serbia, Radivoj Korać ranks 2. Before him are Svetislav Pešić (1949). After him are Aleksandar Đorđević (1967), Dragan Kićanović (1953), Dejan Bodiroga (1973), Zoran Slavnić (1949), Dragan Šakota (1952), Miloš Teodosić (1987), Vlade Divac (1968), Saša Obradović (1969), Nikola Jokić (1995), and Željko Rebrača (1972).

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